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#1

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

#2

“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

tags: catholicism, christianity, church, expectations, god, happiness, lovers, marriage, philosophy, relationship-with-god, relationships, religion, spirituality, unhappy-marriage

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#3

“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: god-s-ways, heartbreak

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#4

“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: patience, power, timing, waiting

1294 likes

#5

“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism, christianity, philosophy, spirituality

331 likes

#6

“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

tags: catholic, catholic-spirituality, catholicism, marriage, men, women

296 likes

#7

“There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

tags: catholic, catholicism, united-states, united-states-of-america

241 likes

#8

“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.”
― Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

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#9

“It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.”
― Roger Scruton

tags: ethics-and-moral-philosophy

160 likes

#10

“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”
― Jonathan Haidt

tags: analogy, pornography, sex, sports, war

86 likes

#11

“If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

tags: love

108 likes

#12

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
― John Berger

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